September 20, 2017

Hurricane Watch

(CNN) There is still time for Puerto Ricans to get to a government-run shelter before powerful Hurricane Maria clobbers the island, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN late Tuesday.

But the window of opportunity is closing.

"There's still time ... but people need to move fast," Ricardo Rosselló told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360˚," calling the storm the "worst hurricane in modern history in Puerto Rico."

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Maria is a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 175 mph (281 kph). By late Tuesday, the eye of hurricane was expected to move near or over St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and make landfall in Puerto Rico Wednesday morning.

I was able to hear President Trump's full speech to the United Nations tonight. It was so refreshing to hear a speech that was not filled with platitudes and vague references to turmoil in the world. The President spelled it out in terms that every nation can understand. He spoke of real world issues and the consequences that rogue regimes will face of they pursue their hostile course.

MM-did you happen to see melania yesterday at the UN? Her demeanor and outfit reminded me of when trump took her the first time to capitol hill after election.

I think sometimes he uses her to read people and be his second set of eyes. In addition she would be one of the few first ladies to be able to evaluate if a translator is interpreting the idioms correctly.

Good morning, JOM.-Lots of tragic things happening, earthquakes, hurricanes and a lot of destruction and loss of life. Kind of emphasizes to me how hubristic it is to believe we can control the climate.
I went to bet thinking how likely it is that the Comey-Mueller-Clapper gambit is about to explode in their faces, and woke up thinking how much fun it would be to picket Mueller's offices with signs saying Brown Shirt Pick Locks.

"I thought the historic speech President Trump made at the United Nations today was really about defending America; but, it was also about defending the right of every country to be a sovereign nation. It's the fourth great speech of his presidency and it sets the stage for a worldwide debate about globalism v. sovereign nations who work together as independent countries -- not as some kind of globalist internationalism."

BTW the latest account of the Manafort middle of the night lock picked raid includes the fact that the agents insisted on searching his wife for weapons. Imagine how desperate and out of any rational control the SC is.

A full investigation was held.
The DNC hired a squad of Dem thugs and fixers to concoct a full and thoroughly fake investigation and the most respected joke of an investigative agency in the world, the Federal Bureau of Intimidation er sorry, Investigation, bought it off of them for a hundred grand and then lied through their teeth about it for months.

In fact, a FISA order can be issued only when a Full Investigation has been approved. That means that a FISA order must "piggyback" on the authorization of Full Investigation, satisfying at a minimum the same criteria. Here is what is stated in the Attorney General Guidelines for FBI National Security Investigations and Foreign Intelligence Collection:

Full investigations. Full investigations are authorized, generally speaking, when there are specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that a threat to the national security may​ exist. Like preliminary investigations, full investigations may relate to individuals, groups, organizations, and possible criminal violations, as specified in Part II.B.

My contention, based on experience with these matters, is that "specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe" goes well beyond mere "suspicion."

Further ...

The ability to provide "specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that a threat to the national security may​ exist" only gets you a Full Investigation. To get a FISA order there is an additional bar. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) states re electronic surveillance that

agents need to demonstrate probable cause to believe that the "target of the surveillance is a foreign power or agent of a foreign power,"

And let us not forget that estimable and irreproachable stout legged hippopotamus Loretta Lynch signed off on it so who has the cojones to claim there could have been anything even slightly underhanded going on?

Especially if, as seems likely she consulted with our beloved and highly respected and utterly disinterested elder statesman Billy Jeff Boinker on some secluded tarmac somewhere. In between trading pics of their little grandgargoyles of course.

What James Taranto said last year on this date still rings true:"The problem with Obama and Mrs. Clinton is that they seem completely oblivious to the need for domestic persuasion—which is a fancy way of saying they are hopelessly out of touch with their countrymen, who require reassurance that our leaders know what they’re doing and are on our side.
The only message they are delivering to Americans is the message intended for the enemy, or for the population from which the enemy draws recruits. Consider Mrs. Clinton’s assertion that “Muslims . . . have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.” One can imagine—although we are skeptical—that that’s a useful thing to say for the purpose of propaganda aimed at demoralizing terrorists and appealing to nonterrorist Muslims. But from the standpoint of an American voter who takes the statement at face value, it is flatly false—a bold-faced lie, really, since Mrs. Clinton obviously knows it is false.
By contrast, what Trump has to say on this subject is a rough approximation of the truth. We’re uneasy with the roughness, but too many in the political class fail to appreciate the importance of the truth."

The problem with Obama and Mrs. Clinton is that they seem completely oblivious to the need for domestic persuasion—

It is the same with the illegal immigrant issue -

"It is striking that, even in a conservative debate, mass, remorseless, illegal immigration is discussed almost entirely from the illegals' point of view: ... think of the families, think of the children. Their families, their children. The families of those they've supplanted are of less consequence. The argument...against enforcing the immigration laws is an appeal to moral preening: this is "not who we are". But using mass immigration to destroy the lives of your own citizens? That's exactly who we are." - Mark Steyn, "He Likes Ike"

agents need to demonstrate probable cause to believe that the "target of the surveillance is a foreign power or agent of a foreign power

And I suspect this will be the hook to hang the lot of them. Unless Mueller comes back with charges of Manafort working for the Russians, electronic surveillance of Team Trump will be seen for what it is. A charge of tax evasion isn't going to cut it.

Bingo fdcol63. Name an "accomplishment" by Curb Dive or Lurch. Both of them eat steak and ride in Limo's, because of their Spouses or their Spouse's ex-husbands accomplishments.
LIBERALS/MARXISTS are parasites. Looks like Pelosi Galore is going to find out the hard way. The Croc is hungry and she's NEXT.

Nice to see that Jimmy Kimmel, a man who first found fame admitting he didn’t know a single answer to the questions he read off the cards on Win Ben Stein's Money is now an authority on all things healthcare cuz he has a sick kid.

Clarice I love the back and forth between you and Davod about the FISA warrants. Trouble is...you have the written rule of law on your side, and Davod has the FACT as stated by Jimmy that 99% of such warrants are granted (and since they are secret and unilateral, they are never tested). Now, knowing what we all know about brown shirted over zealous investigators working within a system that has abandoned The Rule of Law and replaced it with "My goals are so pure, just trust me", while I acknowledge you get some points for technicality...you are WAY wrong in the conclusion. Advantage: Davod.

If you trust Comey......TRUST THE FBI.
If you trust Obama......TRUST THE FISA COURT.
If you play by MARXIST RULES..........sucker.

This whole mess is a CHARADE. What does Manafort being investigated for FINANCIAL CRIMES several years ago, have to do with MAKE BELIEVE RUSSIAN,,,,,,undefined INTERFERENCE in our HACKED ELECTION. From start to finish, from RODHAM getting her WIDE ASS kicked...to...MADE TERMS like Russian-Wikileaks....this is a CRIME. And it's not President Trump committing it.

About those opportunities for graft. Some group found $2.3 trillion in govt waste to cut. Looks to me like all low hanging fruit. But 634 grifters need a piece of some phony action, so I expect nothing to come of this.

"Probable cause" is vague enough that they can claim they had it, but weren't able to produce enough evidence to make a charge stick. It would be a lie, of course, but hard to disprove without a smoking gun.

A Wisconsin appeals court upheld the state’s right-to-work law Tuesday, the second time in two months that Badger State unions have seen their legal challenges to the law rebuffed in court.

The unions had argued the law, which prohibits workers from being forced to join a union or pay a regular fee to one as a condition of employment, was unconstitutional. The court ruled that the issue had been long settled.

“The unions have no constitutional entitlement to the fees of non-member employees,” Judge Mark Seidl wrote for the court.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker applauded the ruling and defended the purpose of the law. “The purchase of any service should be voluntary and not coerced. Wisconsin’s right-to-work law protects freedom, not special interests. I applaud the court in affirming the constitutional right of all Wisconsin workers to be free to choose whether they want to join a union or financially support a union.”

Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, who defended the law before the court, said they were “vindicated.”

watch--the stories about how the Manafort's home was invaded, surely didn't come from Mueller and the reason why we are seeing it is because Manafort wants us to know. How do we know that the investigation is into 2006 financial dealings--certainly same reason,

Trump surely paid attention to the Libby case and he will not play the deaf dumb and blind "presidential" role GW did.

Clarice, I don't think we care what was said in any wiretapped call between Trump and Manafort...just confirmation that such snooping was in fact done to a political rival proves Trump right and waves the red flag which should chill all patriots to the bone.

That is too kind to GW. He went further than that an ordered his employees to, in effect, waive their constitutional rights and cooperate with the enemy. Sure, they could have resigned and lawyered up, but these were good people trying to do good things for their country.